Printing Query

[donkeymusic]

Hello,

I have a query with regards to printing, just hope i can explain, here goes.

When i print 8x10 (for example), there is no border and i am aware that when i pass these to a customer they will buy a mount with an aperture of 8x10, now this aperture will be slightly smaller and overlap the edges of the print. NOw should there be any important detail around the edges this would be cut off.

So looking for a way to work around this, was thinking maybe that i crop images to say 7.5 x 9.5 and then add a half inch border to make it to the correct size. Would this work? Would this then result in a thin white border around the photo and between the mount?

How do you crop for printing?

Thanks for any advice.

 

[snappingsam]

you should always compose your images to allow for this cutoff - its been a fact of life for photographs as long as there has been mounts and frames (as you loose inmage behind the rebate of the frame)

If you have not left this, adding a border to the print the same colour as the mount is helpful - however, if you are having prints done on a Photographic paper printer such as a Fuji Frontier or Noristsu there is always a small (3% or so) magnification applied to your image to ensure all the paper is exposed - so regradless of the border or not you'll loose a few mm all round the image....

 

[donkeymusic]

you should always compose your images to allow for this cutoff - its been a fact of life for photographs as long as there has been mounts and frames (as you loose inmage behind the rebate of the frame)

If you have not left this, adding a border to the print the same colour as the mount is helpful - however, if you are having prints done on a Photographic paper printer such as a Fuji Frontier or Noristsu there is always a small (3% or so) magnification applied to your image to ensure all the paper is exposed - so regradless of the border or not you'll loose a few mm all round the image....

Thanks for the reply David, I am aware about composing to make sure their is cutoff, but sometimes if i have a close up image and i am cropping to a suitable print size then the composition cutoff isn't as relevant, so was wanting to make sure that when i didn't crop i wasn't loosing any important part of the image.

 

[snappingsam]

you also asked how to crop for printing - you can set the sizes you want (and resolution) into the crop tool - and then using the canvas size you can add the border - but remember to set the background colour before you add the canvas.

At our lab - in the superprints - you can add the border, change its size and colour all without any extra work or cost....

Most premade mounts and folders hide 1/4 inch all round - so if you are sending to a lab, if you make the borders 1/4 inch the magnification applied on the printers will add a couple of mm to the image size you will loose a tiny amount of the image - but if it were exact its a nightmare to align.... if you want to show some of the paper you'd need no make it 1/2 inch all round, so a 10x8 you'd crop to 9x7 - that way you will see some of the border once in a mount.